That's just not going to happen. It not only not going to happen, it's silly to think it's even in the realm of possibilities. Even Ron Paul's trillion dollar proposed budget cuts don't balance the budget in one year.
Even if the Tea Party ran the House, they WOULD raise the debt limit and they WOULD deficit spend. If they tried to do what you propose and shut the government down over it, the American people would run them out office and that would be the end of the Tea Party.
The other two things are already bedrock conservative positions which we all agree. No amnesty and no infringement of our 2nd amendment rights.
I can understand your pessimism....I have some of that, too. But I don’t think that it is an unreasonable position to insist on no deficit spending in our yearly budgets, or at least on a short-term plan to balance it. We all have to live with the realization of that in our private affairs - the government should have to do the same.
We have a certified explosion in entitlement spending. It is the primary cause of our ongoing dilemma. Obama raised it $1.2 Trillion in 2012 over dozens of government entitlement programs not connected with Social Security and Medicare, and he wants to increase it even more to keep Democrats in power for 2014.